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​​Mississippi ReMixed tells the personal story of Canadian Myra Williams Ottewell, who returns to her birthplace in Jackson, Mississippi, determined to celebrate the great racial transformations in the state since the 1960s. She instead discovers that understanding race relations is far more complicated than she bargained for.​Mixed with rarely seen archival footage, family photos and interviews with state civil rights leaders and ordinary citizens, this unique documentary, made in association with Mississippi Public Broadcasting, explores current race relations. The film celebrates the transformations occurring, and exposes the struggles and successes Mississippi is having with integration today.

Mississippi ReMixed embarks on an emotional journey as Myra grapples with the past to understand the future.​​

Mississippi ReMixed is being used in classrooms and in community and religious settings as a discussion starter about race relations in Mississippi and around the world.

“Myra Ottewell and Mississippi Public Broadcasting have performed a tremendous service. Mississippi ReMixed reveals how easy it is for a society to cling to the status quo when the majority is privileged. And in a quite constructive way, the documentary shows how the younger generation is changing the status quo. The complexity of race and the history of Jim Crow are laid out for everyone to see. Moreover, for both blacks and whites, this program sounds the alarm against complacent inertia, and with such intellect that viewers will have a difficult time trying to debunk the program's factual basis.”​​J. Dale Thorn, Ph.D.Retired Professor, Louisiana State Univ. and Native Mississippian